Rising Sun Times, Volume 4, Number 159, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 26 November 1836 — Page 2

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icncra5 laSellist'iico.

in those States is triumphant through-! THE TOWN OF HOrSTON. TEXAS.

(J-The folic wing article is copioJ from the New-Yorker, of tho 5th instant an excellent neutral paper, published in the city of New York. THE PRESIDENTIAL. ELECTION. As we v, rile, the list Meps arc being taken preparatory to the quadremal election of a 'resident and Vice President of the United Slates; and cue million and a ha!f of fic-emen, from the St. Johns to the Arkansas, from the Capes of Virginia to the shores of Lake Michigan, are rallying to the polls to indicate by their suffrages the individual whom their partiality cr their judgement has designated for the chief Magistracy of this ere at Republic. As

this sheet passes to the press, (Friday.)

the great battle is being fought it Per.n

Fylvania and Ohio two States which, if they should chance to vote together, will well nigh decide the fate of the contest and, bfore another week will -have elapsed, the 'long agony' will be virtually at an end. A few straggling States will yet remain to vole: but there is no probability that the issue will devolve on them; and the main interest evinced, after oaa week from this date, will be to ascertain and not to in

fluence the great result. Even in our

next, we hope to be able to apprize our

readers, with tolerable certainty, of the

issue of the arduous struggle

It is our province to record, and not

to predict, that issue 5 to say whom the

people of the Union, as of each particu

lar State or smaller district, have chos

en to rule over them, and not wnom

they should choose. We therefore miss

lir n lmirih!,' nn'V.rlnn'tv fiir ilio ills

pliy of political or prophetic sagacity

enjoyed by many oi oar cctemporanes

who are so coi.tnii n"I - sum g ineir

respective coadjutors in the pending

contest of a signal and 'glorious victory.' In our humbler but perchance no less useful sphere, wc may remark that

there has been no election of Presi

dent since the adoption of the Federa

Constitution, which assumed so little of a sectional character in other

words, none so evenly contested from one end of the Union to the other as the present. Of the twenty -five States about to vote, every one but South Carolina has two opposing Electoral tickets in nomination; and in every one

except New-Hampshire each will be

out the Union.

Ti R KADI" L L C AT ASTItO r II E. LOSS OF THE STEAMRO.VT ROYAL TAK. The steamboat Royal Tar, Thomas Reed, master, cf and from St. Johns, . B. for Portland, left on Friday, 21st. October, with about 'JO to 100 pnssen-'-r. in- iudin'T crew. On deck were

nn elephant, two camels, sex-

era

1 hon

;u.e

la number of caged animals, com-

miMivj a travelling caravan. 1 . . . . 1

'Join, when crossing

raid within about two

On

Penobscot Bav.

miles if the entrance of Fox bland throouchfare, it was found that the water was out of the boiler, and as the

wind was blowing a heavy gale lrom N. W. at the. time, the boat was anrl,r,r, ,l f.ir (lie nn vv( SO of flllinST the

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and in about an hour alter

(about two P. M.) she was discovered

to be on tire.

The engineer with fifteen other per

sons immediately jumped into the larg

est boat, and made lor the nearest land

to leeward, which they reached m sale-

ty in about four hours. Capt. Reed promptly took possession of the only

remaining uoat, and tooK a position at

:ort distance to the windward.

Three gentleman passengers, good

swimmers, committed themselves to

the water, and were taken up by Capt Reed.

The cable was slipped and sail made

on the boat with the hope of reaching

the shore, but the names spread so rapidly from aft to forward, that her mainmast was consumed in a few minutes, and her till- r ropes being burnt away,

she drifted broadside to the wind, directly out to sea. A signal of distress had been made, and it was fortunately discovered by the Revenue Cutter, stationed at Castinc, then about four or five miles to windward, and she promptly bore up to her relief. Capt. Reed put on board cf her the persons in his boat, and then

immediately commenced taking off

those remainingon board the Royal 1 ar.

At this time she was a mass of flames

neatly from stem to stern; a small

space forward which had not yet taken

tire, with the bowsprit, bobstay, etc.

was crowded with toe survivors.

fhose on the quarter deck were driven

overboard by the flames, and such as

to tiie davit

to

It has been truly remaiKed, that

more interesting information may be gleaned often from the advertisements of a newspaper than from its editorial columns. Since the establishment of a newspaper, called the Telegraph, at Columbia in Texas, we are put in possession of more valuable details as to the actual position of that country, so little known in the United Slates, than t r 1 1. 1 I i

we have ever neiore ueou cnauieu 10

reach in the desultory pages of travellers, ar.d scattered facts detailed in the nnratives of letter writers. We were

struck with the truth of this observa

tion, in reading an advertisement in the Telegraph of September 13th, setting eff the advantages of the locality of the

new town of Houston, on the Buffalo

Bayou. The language employed is

entirely in the vein el similar produc

tions, which blithe advertising columns of our papers in this present rage for land speculation. The present site, however, directly on the spot where the distinguished General after whom it is named, gained the brilliant victory of San Jacinto, appears to have all the advantages ascribed to it. It is at the

head of navigation for steamboats and large vessels; in a rich country but ten hours sa.il to Galveston Bay, on the sea, w hich is described as abounding in oysters and game. There is also line timber of pine, ash, cedar and oak, and the magnificent magnolia. Extensive rsrairies of rich pasture already a saw

I I - mill and public hotel are building. The new town is distant 15 miles from the Brazos1 river, 30 miles north east

rem San Felipe, and 10 from Harris-

T2IE DEATH OF COL. I.ANE. The Georgetown Metropolitan, in

announcing tins unioriunaic auau, says :

The lamented oiheer appeared to

have placed the hilt of his swotd on

the ground and kneeling over it, to have

forced the point through his eye into

the brain. He was lound immediately after the fatal act in this position

the sword having penetrated about two inches and though quite insenible, he

survived for half an hour, breathing ster.toriously all the time. The net

seems to have been done most deliberately the puncture being made in the interior corner of the eye where the brain is readiest to access, and it will be recollected that a cadet was killed at West Point not long since, by a

wound inflicted in the same spot, while

fencing with a comrade, i rohably this circumstance suggested this singular but effective mode of death to the unhappy officer. No other cause than derangement is assigned for the deadly act. It is remarkable that the surgeon suspected partial derangement in Colonel Lane while on the march from

Tampa Bay.

llouiishing. Four daily, one semiweekly, and eight weekly papers, and four monthly journals, aic issued here. Wages of all kinds of mechanical labor are high; the professions are crowded, as elsewhere, and last, not least, its editors are as industrious, gifted, honest, long-suffering, and ill-rewarded as the worthy fraternity abroad. Cincinnati JWrror. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The election of President and Vice

President of the United States, for the term of four years, commencing March 1th, 1 C37, will be made on Wednesday, the 7(h day of December, 1G3G, the Electors meeting at the Capitols of the respective states in which they arc chosen. The following shows the number

of votes to which each State is entitled,

with the time of election. It is put in huge type, that it may be cut out and posted up for reference. Malts. Xo.ofJ'oUi I Wlicnhtld.

survived were Hanging

supported with spirit, and in twenty of hackles, chains, and ropes attached the twenty-four with hope. Louisiaua, I the rudder.

in the extreme Souih-Wcsl, like Geor

gia in the South, is claimed br both par

ties; Indiana, in the direct West, also;

Rhode Hand, Connecticut, m.d we be

lieve Massachusetts, in the North, and

Many were suspended by ropes, se

cured on deck, but as the fire reachei!

them, were precipitated into 1 lie se

and drowned. I he culler unfoitu

nately had no boat of sufficient size to

Virginia, Man land, and Pennsylvania, I render any assistance in taking off the

in the more central portion ot the In- j sullercrs, and having gunpowder or

ion. ltis douoiiess known 10 an mat 1 board, Lieut. JJver. m command, did

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one party contends w ith a lar greater not deem it prudent to approach very

confidence of success than the other; I near the wreck so that the work of

but this confidence, along with great

and manifold advantages, entails many

evils on its possessors; as is evinced by

the injurious divisions among the

friends of Mr. Van Buren in Maine and

rescue was unavoidably very tedious.

Capt. Reed, however, firmly and

resolutely persevered with his boat

though it was w ith some difficulty that

he could obtain an efficient boat's crew

in this Stale. John Randolph once to approach the wreck, fearing the cl

acutely remarked that 'a majority of

one is the best majority in the world;'

and truiy, if permanence and unanimi

ty are desirable as well as success

We fancy the State Administration of

Pennsylvania would have succeeded

better in the late elections had thev

been backed by no more overwhelming majority in the last Legislature. We do not, therefore, regard the assurance

of success felt by one part" as of itself

materially calculated to aid in produ

cing the result it so sanguincly contem

plates

We have already remarked thate

predict nothing with regard to the issue

of the pending contest. To those, how

ever, who may choose to compare our

viewrs with their own in forming an ear-

lyjudgemcntof the great result, we may

urgh. It is proposed to erect also

vi t tonal armorv at this nlacc. When

we see this rapid march to prosperity in a land yet engaged in a bloody strug

gle for its liberty, surely the Amei icans

who inhabit there, must be acknowledg

ed to be endowed to the full measures

of the Go Ahead principle, which char

acterizes their countrymen here.

A iw 1 ork a tar.

FROM TEXAS. By the schooner Pennsylvania, we

have received our files of the Colum

bia Telegraph to the 1 2lh inclusively. Every tiling lemained tranquil and

prosperous in icxas. A tlieatre had been established in Columbia, which

was well rupporlcd indeed the Tex-

lane, although yxepared to defend the country at a nVyient'a warning, are

throwing otl the habilaments of war,

and introducing the comforts, luxuries and recreations of a people freed from

the thraldom of oppression.

Gen. Samuel Houston, tho President

elect of the. republic, and suite, arrived

at Columbia on the 9th Last. The

pliant would go overboard and destroy

the boat.

flic boat left the wreck a little bc-

before sunset, with one solitary frantic

female, the last 0:1 board, whose sister

and child had perished before her eyes. The loss of lives is estimated at from

2G to o2, there being seme small chil

dren on board which had hot been inserted on Capt. R.'s passenger list the

precise number cannot be ascertained. The prompt and praiseworthy decis

ion of Captain Reed in securing the

oat, was the only means by which the

life of an indivdual could have been

saved. The elephant, camels, and horses jumped overboard, and all the animals in the cages were burnt. None of the passenger's or crew's baggage was fnvpil. iT n,r r

pe-

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,au, ;uc ua3 s given great M,-unks,&c. were thrown overboard in

,,UI1U uie eueo, lennivan.a, and the hope that they might be nicked up

a.e ..or now apposed to vary our con- 'l ie cutter landed the survivors a-

toVb, U , , oe.erence bout 3 P. M. at the We of Hunt, w i.e.e to that vote that we h.ve deemed the (hey received the met hospitable nrosner: s o Mr. Vn P.ir, , ,-., , . r ..... "".j'u.inie

.1 , . - uv.umeni irom the m hah tanl Wo

1 ' V; " , I;.' ' . r . U1VT V:iVn V'crcwWge amount of s

-v.. ...uo.., nuiwiisvanuing ine au- cio on hoard the RovalT-u-

. , . ,..-uii. in , i Ui" UUOIOUS victory in Georgia. Nothing but the

Mci in usom- 30 or 40,000 voles were wilhhrM I ! 1 rn ,:n 1. . c 1

..v,.., men inn iju iounu i;i the ballot-boxes now, prevented our es

timating the Pera)S)lyania victory a a very decisive, as well as decided one. The recent vole in Georgia inducr ns

to add Virginia, as the most comman

ding o! the Southern State?, to Penn Cltir'irii 1 1 . r i

,,, u,,, Lomuuiaiion oi mali

ces; so that the vole of those two, if

cast lOgeuier, we believe cannot be

overpowered. If the reader, there-

lore, aha.l hear, sooner than we shall

bo enabled to announce i(, that Penn-

fylvania and Virgiuia have each lec lt d (he Van Buren or the Anti Van

P.'iren Electors, he need scarcely doubt.

i.i our opunon, that tlie party scccessful

rn-THEit Particulars.- Tho num.

her of human lives lost by thh calami-

r.camsix twenty thiee of

Idem passengers. Filly-nine were saved from the wreck, by (he timely aid of the Revenue Cutler. The elephant swam to an i-land unhurt. IIC made signs for his keeper to accompany him, winch weie disregarded, and the keeper is among (hc lost. The remainder of the caravan was destroyed, with most of the attendants, and all the money earned during the summer. The be inn ,uMca would be considercj very heavy, but for the still more aflhcting loss of live 'I he catastrophe is Rtlributabh; to me misconduct r 1.. .,. .. .

ll H.PSHCSS 01 ti

voles for the annexion to the United

States and for the constitution as it is,

were almost unanimous.

Generals Thomas Rusk, Green, and

lehx Houston, are the prominent can

didat- s befurr- the people to supply the

place 01 com -a nder -in-chief, vacate

by the cievati.-mof Houston as Presi

dent of the Republic.

Congrcs? w;t in session, hut princi

pally occupied with local matters, but

of no interest w hatever to the genera

reader. A. O. Gmrkr.

It becomes our painful duty to an

nounce the death of one of our early and substantial friends, Mr. Joel C. Booen,

of Clark County. The transaction which deprived him of life, makes his exit, if possible, more painful to bis

relatives as well as his friends. e learn thai some difficulty occurred between him and a Mr. Elisha Marshall one night last week, that Marshall struck him with a club, and he soon after died. Mr. Booen was a modest, intelligent gentleman very retiring in his mannerswas the surveyor of Clark County, the duties of which Office he has discharged for the last six years. The county has lost a useful citizen and

lis neighbors a kind and benevolent

friend. .iibanu Gazelle.

STOl THE MUUUKItEli. $100 11 F.WARD.

A daring and unprovoked murder

was committed upon Joel C. Bowen,

ate of Clark county, Indiana, by one

Elisha Marshall, late of said county ana

State. Marshall is between thirty and

thirty-five years of age, about live feet

seven or eight inches high, light com

plexion, light hair and blue eyes, lias a down and rather a guilty look, walks

lame, is somewhat bow legged, ar.d turns the toes of one foot inward when

walking. He wore a black hat, a cabinet close bodied coat, and pantaloons

of seme sort of worsted drilling, of a

dingy or dirty color. The above re

ward will he given for the apprehension and delivery of said Marshall to the Jailor of Clark county,or to the undersigned. JOSEPH BOWEN, JOHN McDONNALD. Charlestown, Nov. 18, 183G.

New York,

Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, iVonh Cnrolinn, rilas3.'-huse(:, Sou ill Carolina,"

;t:uii;e.

! lamps! lire,

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Indiana, Connecticut,

Svw Jersey,

ennont,

Alabama,

Illinois, Louisiana, Ilhode Island, Mississippi, Missouri, Delaware, Total,

Eh:ctors are chosen by (he Legisla

ture in Si-ulh Carulina. 1-iG votes aie

required to elect a President.

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TEXAS.

The war in Texas may be said to have terminated, as far as regards the

actual operation of Mexico, it those at

the head of affairs in Texas he true to

their adopted country and themselves.

Every manenuvre has vainly been resorted to in Mexico to raise and equip an army: forced loans have been decreed, not effected; young men have received military brevets, with orders to scour the country for recruits: but all are ineffectual. Few can be raised, except persons of color, and even they are compelled to submission by outrage; they have a horror to enter Texas. And the troops tlnil had been encamped at Malamoras daily mutiny and desert. The Mexican Government will make a feint of again invading Texas; but their attempt will belike that cf a cowardly bully in a duel with 'in antagonist of whose determination and superior skill he is (irmly persuaded. That the attempt will be made, and perhaps renewed, there can be little doubt, no more than there can be that the Texans are now much better prepared than during the past campaign, and their enemy are much worse, i he event may therefore be considered doubtful as the attempt. Vc(, to prevent the massacre and depredations of such a civil war, it would be well that the U. States government interfered as umpire; and that, while the independence of Texas should be recognized, national vanity and claims of Mexico should be satisfied,

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engineer, and Lrr..ai , vriinir, " ., ,mu lue l,om"" the American Union

"t the East in conse.nu-, 1 rtVa"9)Lc '"e firmly displayed.

.V O Standard.

The tide of emigration continues to roll from the east to the west with undiminished force. The Detroti Advertiser of the 1 2th ultimo, says: The drift of emigration to the WTest wis never so great as at the present time. Our city for a few weeks past has presented a scene of life and activity never before witnessed. Every boat

from the east comes loaded down with

passengers, who are to he seen running

in every direction trying to procure

teams lo convey them into the into

rior. Their places are hardly vacated

before a fresh load arrives, and our city

is thus continually kept in a slate of

commotion. c are truly astonished

at the thousands which are almost daily pouring in upon us. But '"the west'1

is a wide field for the industrious and

enterprising, and we bid the honest and

industrious a hearty welcome. CINCINNATI.

Cincinnati contains at present between thirty" and forty thousand inhabitants, and in point of neainess and taste

111 the architecture of puidic and private edifices is not surpassed by any city of the same population in America. It contains five banks, with an aggregate capital of five million, six hundred thousand dollars; four insunir.ee companies and two .agencies; two medical colleges ; a law school ; thirty churches, several of them very beautiful: eighteen common schools, the school houses nearly all new, spacious, and well finished, attended by about two thousand five hundred children above six years of age, at an average cost for tuition of eight dollars per annum; numerous classical and elementary academies; waler-woiks, with reservoirs for 10,000,000 gallons, and twenty-four miles of large pipes laid in the city for the distribution of water. There are also twenty-three public cisterns, for the use of the (ire department. The number of fire-engines is sixteen, of hosecarriages, eight, having together eleven thousand feet of hose. The manufactures and commerce of Cincinnati are not easily estimated; both are very

A Saiatmry Wakni.ni;. The store

of Messrs R. Buchanan and Co. in Lou

isville was entered in the night of ti: Gth inst, by two villians for the. purpose of committing theft. Whilst thev were

rumaging the money drawer and desk, Mr. Buchanan, (who was sleeping in the store,) and taking a pistol, fired at

one of them, shooting hirn severely in

the hip, of which wound he uied the

next day. Before his death he confes

sed himself guilty of numerous other

thefts and crimes, and showed himself

to have beena consummate villain, and

an old offender. He was awfully, but

juslly arrested in his wretched career.

I he other robber made his escape. A Man of Business. Mr. Caldwell

of New Orleans, not satisfied with own

ing all the theatres between the rails of St. Anthony and the Balize, and managing three or four of them with being the proprietor of a Bank, and the largest bathing establishment in the Union, and withholding contracts for lighting three or four cities with gas has a new project on foot, it is said, to wit, the formation of an 'Ocean Steam Company' for runnig a line of steam packets between New Oilcans and Liverpool. "While he is thinking about this, lie is amusing himself with a scheme for paving the streets of New-Orleans with octagonal blocks ef stone. Sun. DUEADFUL FI11E AND EXI'I.OSION AT SEA. By an ni rival at New York, we learn that the brig Ariel from that port, bound to Carlhagena, wilh six hundred

barrc;5 of flour and a half a Ion. o gunpowder on board, took lire at midnight of the 31st of August. The captain, crew and nine passengers were aroused from their sleep by the dreadful cry of "ship on fire!"' They escaped, mostly in their night clothes; by means of (be longboat. In about twenty minute?, and when they were not more than half a mile from the brig, she blew up with n terrific explosion, which seemed to shake and rend the very elements. They landed on the island of St. Domingo, on the 4th of Sept. and arrived in New York on Thursday. The Ariel and her cargo were insured in the sum of thirty thousand dollars. 7Vu7. Inquirer. A wag remarked (hat the Elephant winch lately escaped from the Royal l ar, was the only passenger who took his trunk ashore with him. A Judge in Kentucky has decided that a dandy is a niti'samr, and may be kicked into tho gutter the same as any other puppy.

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